The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-01-12
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"HE SHALL DIVIDE THE SPOIL WITH
THE STRONG"

the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning beglns:
o, could speak the matches worth
O. could sound the glories forth
Which in my Saviour shinei
DIR. Taimage explained some Of the prophs-
cies before giving out the hymn and then
preached on the subject Distribution Of Re
wards, taking his text from Isaiah lii, u:
He shall divide the spoil with the strong"
DR.. Talmage spoke as follows:
NV family who saw IL with their own eyes
year before last, tell me that in the Coliseum
at Rome, where prosecutors used to let out
the half starved lions TO eat up Christians,
there is now planted the figure Of a cross.
And / rejoice % know that the upright piece
Of wood nailed TO "A transverse piece has be
come the symbol, not more OF suffering than
Of victory. II Is of Christ the conqueror that
my text speaks. As kingly warrior, having
subdued an empire, might divide the palaces,
and mansions, and cities, and valleys, and
mountains among his officers, 50 Christ is
going 10 divide up all the earth and all the
heavens among His people, and you and
win have 10 take our share If we are strong
in faith and strong in our Christian loyalty,
for my text declares it: "He shall divide the
spoil with the strong"
The capture of this round planet for Christ
is not so much OF job you might imagine,
when the church takes off its coat and rolls
up its sleeves for the work, as it will There
ars 1000 0OO, 600 people now in the world,
and there are 4J0, 800 Christians. Sub
tract the 5000 1900 who are Christians
from the 1900, 600, 600, and there are II ,O5O,-
coo 900 left to be Christianized. Now divide
the II, 0JO, OOO,00 by the $50, O00, 600 already
Christianized, and it makes only twenty
five people for each Christian TO bring
% Christ Surely, when the church gets wide
r.yf1 b. 10. ka tn
heaven less than twenty-five. Why, hope
70 take with me at least 200. know evan
gelist that have already gathered so 600 each
for the kingdom. There are at least 200, 600
men in Christendom whose one business it is
TO save souls. So that when / tell you all
that we need 20 average is twenty-five souls
reaped for God in lifetime, all idea OF i'm
possibility vanishes from this ornnipotent
crusade. know Of Sabbath school teacher
who has spent her lifetime in teaching the
young, and she has Ind five different classes
during all these years, and she tells me they
averaged about seven in class, and they
were all converted, and five times
seven are thirty-five, as near as /
can calculate. She brought her twenty-five
and had ten 10 spare My grandmother
brought her whole family into the kingdom,
and her grandchildren, and, / hope all her
great grandchildren, for God remembers n
prayer Is years old as well as though it were
a minute and she took her twenty-five into
the kingdom and had at least 100 to spare.
Besides that, the telegraph and telephone
will, within few years, put the whole earth
into n compass OF ten minutes. Consider
this, and also that omnipotence, and omnis-
cience, and omniprescnce preside over all the
work of betterment, and you win take this
enterprise of the worlds redemption out of
the impoSsibilities into the possibilities, and
then out OF the possibilities into the probabili-
ties, and then out of the probabilities into the
certainties. The building Of the Union Pa
cific railroad from ocean to ocean a
greater undertaking than the girdling of the
earth with the Gospel, for the one enterprise
depended upon the human arm while the
other depends upon almightiness.
DO i really mean all the earth will sur
render 20 Christi Yes. How about the I'M
inviting portions9 win Greenland be evan
gelizedi The possibility is that after few
more hundred brave lives are dashed out
among the icebergs, that great refrigerator,
the Polar region, viii be given up to the
walrus and the bear, and that the inhabitants
will come down by invitation into tolerable
climates, or those climates may soften, and,
as it has been positively demonstrated that
the Arctic region was once blooming garden
and fruitful field, those regions may change
climate and again be a blooming garden and
a fruitful field. 1t is proved beyond contro-
versy by German and American scientists
that the Arctic regions were the first portions
of this world inhabitable; the world hot be
yond human endurance; those regions were
OF course the first to be cool enough for
human foot and human lung. 1t is PEST
lively proved that that Arctic region was
tropical climate Professor Heer OF
Zurich says the remains of flowers have beer
found in the Arctic, showing 1t was like
Mexico for climate and it is found that tn,
Arctic was the mother region from which
all the flowers descended. Professor Wallac,
says the remains of all styles Of animal lif,
are found in the Arctic, including thos,
animals that can live only in warm climates
Now, that Arctic region which had beer
demonstrated by fora and fauna and geo
logical argument to have been as full OF
vegetation and life as our Florida may b,
turned back TO its original bloom and glory
or il will be shut up as a museum Of crystal
for curiosity seekers once in a while to visit
But Arctic and Antarctic in some shape will
belong TO the Redeemeris realm
What about other unproductive or re
pulsive regions, All the deserts viii be irri
gated, the waters will be forced up TO tn
great American desert between here and tn
Pacific by machinery now known or vet I.
be invented, and as great Salt Lake City ha
no rain and could not raise an apple or
bushel OF wheat in 100 years without arti
fetal help, but is now through such mean
one great garden, so all the unproductiv
parts of all the continents will b
turned into harvest fields and orchards. 4
half dozen De Lesseps win furnish the worl,
with all the canals needed, and will chang
the course of rivers and open new lakes, an,
great Sahara desert will be cut up into farm
with an astounding yield of bushels to tn
acre The marsh will be drained of its water
and cured of its malaria. / saw the othe
day what was for'many years called the Blacl
Swamp of Ohio, its chief crop chills an
feyers. but now, by the tiles put into tn
ground to carry off the surplus moisture
transformed into the richest and healthiest O
regions. The God who wastes nothing,
think, means that this world, from pole +
pole, has to come to perfection of foliage an,
fruitage Fer that reason He keeps us run
ming through space, though so many fires ar
blazing down in its timbers and so man,
mock terrors have threatened to dash it 3
pieces. As soon the earth is completes
Christ will divide il up among the good. Tn
reason he does not divide il now is because
is not done. A kind father win not divid
the apple among his children until the appl
Is ripe. In fulfllment of the New Testamen
promise, The meek shall inherit the earth,
and the promise of the Old Testament. III
shall divide the spoil with the strong,n til
world will be apportioned to those worthy 3
possess IL.
It is not so now. In this country, capabl.
Of holding, feeding, clothing, and shelterina
LOO, 900 600 people, and where we have ONLY
90, 900 inhabitants, we have :, 000, 600 who
cannot get honest work, and, with theil
families, an aggregation of q, 900 900 that ar,
on the verge of starvation Something
wrong most certainly. In some way Their
viii be n new apportionment Many of tn,
millionaire estates will crack to pieces on tn,
designations of grandchildren, and then dis
solve into the possession of the masses VIII,
now have an insufficiency.
What, you say, will become of the expen
sive and elaborate buildings now devoted {.
debasing amusementsf They will becom
schools, art galleries, museums, gymnasiums
and churches. The world is already gettin,
Disguised with many of these amusements
and no wonder. What an importation O
unclean theatrical stuff we have within tn
last few years had brought to our shores
And professors of religion patronizing sucl
things! Having sold out to the devil, VIII,
don't you deliver the goods and 10 owe
to him publicly, body, mind and soul, an,
withdraw your name from Christian churche
and say; @Know an the world by thes
presents that am a patron of uncieannes
and child of hell.n Sworn to be the Lords
you are perjurers.
But at Last the tide has turned, and the dies
pisers OF purity overiid the matter 4
foreign actress Of base morals arrived, in
tending to make the tour of the states, bu
the remaining decencv of our cite
rose up and cancelled the contract
and drove her back from our America
stage-a woman fit for neither continent